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Chapter 460
Chapter 460 Working hard together
The first round of the league was forced into a 0-0 tie by the future, which is not good news for Arsenal, especially in the reports of those grass-roots media, it seems that Arsenal's collapse is imminent.
It also makes sense for the media to say this, because Arsenal's next opponent is Fulham and arch-rival Tottenham Hotspur.
As a traditional strong team in England, although Tottenham did not perform very well last season, in everyone's eyes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and Tottenham is still a difficult opponent.
And in the third round of the league, Tottenham will face their rivals in the same city. Their fighting spirit in the second round will definitely be stronger than the first two rounds, and they will definitely want to beat Arsenal.
Under such circumstances, if Arsenal still lacks motivation, even at their own home court, there is a high possibility that they will be dragged off by Liverpool.
After Li Yuxin was criticized by Ji Dong, he trained harder than before.Everyone can see that there is a blazing flame around his body, which is the result of his fighting spirit being materialized...
It was also at this time that other Arsenal players knew for the first time Li Yuxin's determination to surpass Arsenal's previous glorious record...
In the past, I also knew that Li Yuxin had such a talk with the media.
But everyone felt that it was just Li Yuxin fighting against the media. After a while, everyone would naturally forget about it.
That's an unbeaten record of 49 league games!
If Li Yuxin wants to surpass Arsenal, it means that he must complete fifty consecutive unbeaten league games.
But how is this possible?
Moreover, Li Yuxin never mentioned this matter in front of them, which shows that Li Yuxin must not care about this matter.
but……
Unexpectedly, in his heart, he would never forget this matter!
He actually... wanted to challenge Arsenal's unbeaten record of 49 league games!
He is serious!
He is obviously ready, even if the other teammates are not strong enough, he will insist on accomplishing this goal.
The day before the game against Fulham, after Arsenal's last training session before the game, all players except Lee Woo-shin finished training and went back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.
At this moment, the team's second captain, Bell suddenly stood up from his seat.
"Hey, everyone, I have something to say to everyone."
Seeing that the Monkey King who was always smiling and occasionally being funny in the locker room but remained silent suddenly took the initiative, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him strangely.
"I think you have seen Lee's recent training status?" Bell said straight to the point. "I think everyone should know why he trains so hard. It's not just because we didn't win the last game, but because he still has a very ambitious goal in his heart. Based on what I know about her, I think he will never stop until he completes that goal."
Bell looked around and continued: "When Li had this idea at the beginning, I discussed with him whether to tell everyone about it. After all, the undefeated league is not a matter of him alone, and the team's victory is not something he can decide alone. But Li didn't let me do this, because Li didn't want to put too much pressure on you. He said that challenging Arsenal was his own idea, and you shouldn't be burdened with pressure that doesn't belong to you. So until now, he hasn't told you enough, he's just himself. Working towards this goal. Now I ask everyone."
Having said that, Bell looked around his teammates again, this time he paused for a longer period of time, his eyes lingering on everyone's faces, watching their expressions, their eyes.
After looking at everyone, he said again: "I ask everyone to do Li a favor. In many cases, he helped us. When we needed help, he never refused. He has put too much pressure on himself that does not belong to him. Now he needs our help. We are a whole. The honor of being undefeated in the league belongs to the team, so the responsibility and pressure should also belong to each of us. Part of the job, isn't it?"
Bell spread his hands and said, looking at everyone.
"Of course, this is all my personal request. It's just my request. The final decision is still in your hands. I'm done talking."
After speaking, Bell sat back and began to pack his backpack silently, preparing to leave.
A group of people looked at each other in blank dismay, and there was no sound in the locker room for a long time.
Until Bell left the locker room, he didn't hear the response from his teammates, but he felt that there was only so much he could do.That's all he can help Li Yuxin, no amount of other things he can help.
Undefeated in the league, what he, the vice-captain, can do is very limited.Because he is the main force, and he is also an important member of the team, he can't come to ask everyone at all, and he and Li Yuxin will work together silently.
※※※
Ozil listened silently to Bell's words in the locker room, and only then did he realize that he really didn't know enough about Li Yuxin before...
He originally thought he knew this opponent well, but after coming to Manchester City, he refreshed his understanding of Li Yuxin almost every day.
This kid... actually wants to carry the entire team on his shoulders, and then challenge the great record created by the entire team alone!
It's just... crazier than me!
Ozil snorted, then got up and walked to the bathroom.
Li Yuxin, who was practicing hard, didn't know what happened in the locker room during his training.
When he returned to the locker room, as usual, it was empty.He showered alone in the shower, changed by himself, and then closed the door and left, wrapping up another day of training.
In his opinion, the unbeaten record of fifty league games is actually very simple, nothing more than dividing these fifty games into fifty steps.
If you want to complete the record, you just need to take every step and win every game.
The next game is against Fulham, then do your best to play well against Fulham and win them.
In this way, 21/[-] of the task progress has been completed, and there are only [-] games left.
From this point of view, this previous record is not so unattainable and unattainable.
The away game against Arsenal is also very critical for Fulham.
Fulham's current manager is under a lot of pressure after a disastrous first-game defeat.
Although the club declared that they were on their side, this did not relieve the pressure on Dalglish.
His pressure comes from his demands on himself.
As a legend of Fulham, he cannot allow himself to lose the game late in the season.
In this game, Fulham must beat Arsenal to get the team back on track.
Manchester City has been in poor form recently, and this is an opportunity for him.
Last season, Fulham may have been the team with the best performance against Manchester City in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League-they lost at home, but drew with Arsenal away, and at least got a point.
As for other teams, no matter the two confrontations in the league, they all ended in failure.
Looking at it this way, it is not a spoof to say that Fulham is the team with the best results.
The next day, the game came as scheduled.
The game between Arsenal and Fulham was the last game in the second round of the league.All the games before that have been played.
After the two league rounds, Chelsea turned out to be the only team that won both rounds.In the first round of the league, they defeated West Bromwich Albion 6-0 at home.
Two games, two 6:0, [-] goals scored in two games, no goals conceded yet.
This kind of performance is completely different from their performance last season, and it is in stark contrast to Arsenal. Arsenal performed well in the Community Shield Cup, but they were in a sluggish state in the league.
This situation can't help but remind people of the so-called curse of the Community Shield Cup in the past. Is this curse coming out again recently?
With the other games in the second round over, all eyes are now on the two teams, Arsenal and Fulham.
Will defending champions Arsenal's form get better, or will it get worse?
Martin - Jol can reverse the decline facing Liverpool.
Let football reveal the answer.
Before this game, everyone believed that Li Yuxin would continue to be the protagonist, and he would be the one who decided the outcome of the game. Whether his condition is good or not will directly affect whether Arsenal will score three points or zero points in the end.
But it wasn't him who broke the deadlock for the game.
It was Ozil.
The German centerpiece received the ball when Arsenal were attacking and he was about 36 meters from the goal at that time.
A midfielder receives the ball in this position and Fulham players think he will pass the ball.
Ozil did make a fake move to pass the ball, but after deceiving Skrtel in front of him, he suddenly kicked and shot from the spot!
The football is not high, and it ran forward close to the ground, directly piercing through Fulham's defense, and went towards the far post of the goal!
The Fulham keeper lunged at the ball, but in his mind it was most likely going straight wide.Because Ozil's shot was too hasty...
He didn't even have a run-up, it's already good to be able to hit the strength, and he still wants to score?
But just as he was thinking this way, the football fell to the ground in front of him, and then bounced forward, even faster!
Reina missed the ball!
And the football rubbed against the inside of the goal post and got into the goal!
"The ball..." John Mortensen froze for a moment before reacting and raised his arms and shouted. "The goal is scored! The goal is scored! Mesut Ozil! Oh oh oh! Unbelievable world wave! When everyone was focusing on Li, Ozil suddenly broke out! He was in a mediocre state in the last league game, but in this game he has washed away the stigma he received in the previous game with this ball!"
No one expected that Arsenal's lead would come so unexpectedly!
After the goal, Ozil did not celebrate wildly, although the atmosphere in the Emirates Stadium was already a bit crazy-Arsenal fans had no idea that Ozil would score his first league goal for Arsenal this season in this way.
As unexpected as the ball was, the reaction of the fans was as exciting as it was.
Ozil seemed not surprised that he was able to score such a goal. He didn't run wildly to celebrate, but just waved his fist on the spot, but his teammates were more excited than him, rushed up and surrounded him, and celebrated for a while.
Li Yuxin also went up to celebrate the goal.
But he ran a little slower and was blocked outside.
When everyone finished celebrating and ran back to their own half, Li Yuxin finally had the opportunity to say to Ozil: "That shot is really beautiful!"
Faced with Li Yuxin's praise, Ozil snorted: "Don't think that such a thing as breaking a record and being in the limelight is only your business, captain, and us!"
After speaking, he accelerated and ran away.
Li Yuxin was left with an excited face, not quite understanding why Ozil would say that.
"When Ozil failed to score in the first round of the league, there were some criticisms against him in the media. In that game, he and Gareth, Lee, and Cazorla obviously had not established a connection... But in this game, Ozil's form has rebounded, and this goal is really beautiful. He seems to have found a solution - when he and his teammates are not in a good state, first rely on individual ability to score. He did it, this is a very beautiful world wave! Damn, Reina didn't expect him to shoot directly from that place!"
(End of this chapter)
The first round of the league was forced into a 0-0 tie by the future, which is not good news for Arsenal, especially in the reports of those grass-roots media, it seems that Arsenal's collapse is imminent.
It also makes sense for the media to say this, because Arsenal's next opponent is Fulham and arch-rival Tottenham Hotspur.
As a traditional strong team in England, although Tottenham did not perform very well last season, in everyone's eyes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse, and Tottenham is still a difficult opponent.
And in the third round of the league, Tottenham will face their rivals in the same city. Their fighting spirit in the second round will definitely be stronger than the first two rounds, and they will definitely want to beat Arsenal.
Under such circumstances, if Arsenal still lacks motivation, even at their own home court, there is a high possibility that they will be dragged off by Liverpool.
After Li Yuxin was criticized by Ji Dong, he trained harder than before.Everyone can see that there is a blazing flame around his body, which is the result of his fighting spirit being materialized...
It was also at this time that other Arsenal players knew for the first time Li Yuxin's determination to surpass Arsenal's previous glorious record...
In the past, I also knew that Li Yuxin had such a talk with the media.
But everyone felt that it was just Li Yuxin fighting against the media. After a while, everyone would naturally forget about it.
That's an unbeaten record of 49 league games!
If Li Yuxin wants to surpass Arsenal, it means that he must complete fifty consecutive unbeaten league games.
But how is this possible?
Moreover, Li Yuxin never mentioned this matter in front of them, which shows that Li Yuxin must not care about this matter.
but……
Unexpectedly, in his heart, he would never forget this matter!
He actually... wanted to challenge Arsenal's unbeaten record of 49 league games!
He is serious!
He is obviously ready, even if the other teammates are not strong enough, he will insist on accomplishing this goal.
The day before the game against Fulham, after Arsenal's last training session before the game, all players except Lee Woo-shin finished training and went back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.
At this moment, the team's second captain, Bell suddenly stood up from his seat.
"Hey, everyone, I have something to say to everyone."
Seeing that the Monkey King who was always smiling and occasionally being funny in the locker room but remained silent suddenly took the initiative, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at him strangely.
"I think you have seen Lee's recent training status?" Bell said straight to the point. "I think everyone should know why he trains so hard. It's not just because we didn't win the last game, but because he still has a very ambitious goal in his heart. Based on what I know about her, I think he will never stop until he completes that goal."
Bell looked around and continued: "When Li had this idea at the beginning, I discussed with him whether to tell everyone about it. After all, the undefeated league is not a matter of him alone, and the team's victory is not something he can decide alone. But Li didn't let me do this, because Li didn't want to put too much pressure on you. He said that challenging Arsenal was his own idea, and you shouldn't be burdened with pressure that doesn't belong to you. So until now, he hasn't told you enough, he's just himself. Working towards this goal. Now I ask everyone."
Having said that, Bell looked around his teammates again, this time he paused for a longer period of time, his eyes lingering on everyone's faces, watching their expressions, their eyes.
After looking at everyone, he said again: "I ask everyone to do Li a favor. In many cases, he helped us. When we needed help, he never refused. He has put too much pressure on himself that does not belong to him. Now he needs our help. We are a whole. The honor of being undefeated in the league belongs to the team, so the responsibility and pressure should also belong to each of us. Part of the job, isn't it?"
Bell spread his hands and said, looking at everyone.
"Of course, this is all my personal request. It's just my request. The final decision is still in your hands. I'm done talking."
After speaking, Bell sat back and began to pack his backpack silently, preparing to leave.
A group of people looked at each other in blank dismay, and there was no sound in the locker room for a long time.
Until Bell left the locker room, he didn't hear the response from his teammates, but he felt that there was only so much he could do.That's all he can help Li Yuxin, no amount of other things he can help.
Undefeated in the league, what he, the vice-captain, can do is very limited.Because he is the main force, and he is also an important member of the team, he can't come to ask everyone at all, and he and Li Yuxin will work together silently.
※※※
Ozil listened silently to Bell's words in the locker room, and only then did he realize that he really didn't know enough about Li Yuxin before...
He originally thought he knew this opponent well, but after coming to Manchester City, he refreshed his understanding of Li Yuxin almost every day.
This kid... actually wants to carry the entire team on his shoulders, and then challenge the great record created by the entire team alone!
It's just... crazier than me!
Ozil snorted, then got up and walked to the bathroom.
Li Yuxin, who was practicing hard, didn't know what happened in the locker room during his training.
When he returned to the locker room, as usual, it was empty.He showered alone in the shower, changed by himself, and then closed the door and left, wrapping up another day of training.
In his opinion, the unbeaten record of fifty league games is actually very simple, nothing more than dividing these fifty games into fifty steps.
If you want to complete the record, you just need to take every step and win every game.
The next game is against Fulham, then do your best to play well against Fulham and win them.
In this way, 21/[-] of the task progress has been completed, and there are only [-] games left.
From this point of view, this previous record is not so unattainable and unattainable.
The away game against Arsenal is also very critical for Fulham.
Fulham's current manager is under a lot of pressure after a disastrous first-game defeat.
Although the club declared that they were on their side, this did not relieve the pressure on Dalglish.
His pressure comes from his demands on himself.
As a legend of Fulham, he cannot allow himself to lose the game late in the season.
In this game, Fulham must beat Arsenal to get the team back on track.
Manchester City has been in poor form recently, and this is an opportunity for him.
Last season, Fulham may have been the team with the best performance against Manchester City in the middle and lower reaches of the Premier League-they lost at home, but drew with Arsenal away, and at least got a point.
As for other teams, no matter the two confrontations in the league, they all ended in failure.
Looking at it this way, it is not a spoof to say that Fulham is the team with the best results.
The next day, the game came as scheduled.
The game between Arsenal and Fulham was the last game in the second round of the league.All the games before that have been played.
After the two league rounds, Chelsea turned out to be the only team that won both rounds.In the first round of the league, they defeated West Bromwich Albion 6-0 at home.
Two games, two 6:0, [-] goals scored in two games, no goals conceded yet.
This kind of performance is completely different from their performance last season, and it is in stark contrast to Arsenal. Arsenal performed well in the Community Shield Cup, but they were in a sluggish state in the league.
This situation can't help but remind people of the so-called curse of the Community Shield Cup in the past. Is this curse coming out again recently?
With the other games in the second round over, all eyes are now on the two teams, Arsenal and Fulham.
Will defending champions Arsenal's form get better, or will it get worse?
Martin - Jol can reverse the decline facing Liverpool.
Let football reveal the answer.
Before this game, everyone believed that Li Yuxin would continue to be the protagonist, and he would be the one who decided the outcome of the game. Whether his condition is good or not will directly affect whether Arsenal will score three points or zero points in the end.
But it wasn't him who broke the deadlock for the game.
It was Ozil.
The German centerpiece received the ball when Arsenal were attacking and he was about 36 meters from the goal at that time.
A midfielder receives the ball in this position and Fulham players think he will pass the ball.
Ozil did make a fake move to pass the ball, but after deceiving Skrtel in front of him, he suddenly kicked and shot from the spot!
The football is not high, and it ran forward close to the ground, directly piercing through Fulham's defense, and went towards the far post of the goal!
The Fulham keeper lunged at the ball, but in his mind it was most likely going straight wide.Because Ozil's shot was too hasty...
He didn't even have a run-up, it's already good to be able to hit the strength, and he still wants to score?
But just as he was thinking this way, the football fell to the ground in front of him, and then bounced forward, even faster!
Reina missed the ball!
And the football rubbed against the inside of the goal post and got into the goal!
"The ball..." John Mortensen froze for a moment before reacting and raised his arms and shouted. "The goal is scored! The goal is scored! Mesut Ozil! Oh oh oh! Unbelievable world wave! When everyone was focusing on Li, Ozil suddenly broke out! He was in a mediocre state in the last league game, but in this game he has washed away the stigma he received in the previous game with this ball!"
No one expected that Arsenal's lead would come so unexpectedly!
After the goal, Ozil did not celebrate wildly, although the atmosphere in the Emirates Stadium was already a bit crazy-Arsenal fans had no idea that Ozil would score his first league goal for Arsenal this season in this way.
As unexpected as the ball was, the reaction of the fans was as exciting as it was.
Ozil seemed not surprised that he was able to score such a goal. He didn't run wildly to celebrate, but just waved his fist on the spot, but his teammates were more excited than him, rushed up and surrounded him, and celebrated for a while.
Li Yuxin also went up to celebrate the goal.
But he ran a little slower and was blocked outside.
When everyone finished celebrating and ran back to their own half, Li Yuxin finally had the opportunity to say to Ozil: "That shot is really beautiful!"
Faced with Li Yuxin's praise, Ozil snorted: "Don't think that such a thing as breaking a record and being in the limelight is only your business, captain, and us!"
After speaking, he accelerated and ran away.
Li Yuxin was left with an excited face, not quite understanding why Ozil would say that.
"When Ozil failed to score in the first round of the league, there were some criticisms against him in the media. In that game, he and Gareth, Lee, and Cazorla obviously had not established a connection... But in this game, Ozil's form has rebounded, and this goal is really beautiful. He seems to have found a solution - when he and his teammates are not in a good state, first rely on individual ability to score. He did it, this is a very beautiful world wave! Damn, Reina didn't expect him to shoot directly from that place!"
(End of this chapter)
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